Remember DaVinciAudio Labs’ AAS Gabriel turntable with gold-leafing on it? Now the time has come to revive the memories, with Transrotor’s Quintessence for those with deep pockets. The luxury turntable comes with a lustrous layer of chrome and gold to give it classier look. The turntable appears to be something more like a piece of art crafted for the purpose of showing up in a museum. It is designed to create quality music output by zeroing noise and vibrations by means of isolating the pick-up arm from the rest of the body. As the product page suggests, the clear style of the device, the audio output of highest quality, exclusivity and the absolutely mature musical qualities are a few advantages of the turntable that convince a buyer to shell out a hefty amount of $38,790 to get his or her hands on one. By incorporating all standard traits of the manufacturer, this device utilizes hydrodynamic bearings with black acrylic gilt weights embedded in the (bearing) reservoir. The turntable weighs around 70 kg.
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The luxury wristwatch market is flooded with fakes these days, and it’s kinda hard to tell the difference between the two. But now, Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin is claiming to have made a wristwatch that is impossible to counterfeit. Dubbed the Quai de I’lle, the watch features invisible UV marking, laser perforations, high-security inks, and other techniques employed to secure passports and currencies. Some of the models available in this watch collection tout tiny text on the dials, which can be read only with the help of a magnifying glass. Pricing starts at $12,000 for the “impossible to counterfeit” wristwatch and can go as high as $60,000, depending on the styles and deterrents used. They have plans to make 800 Quai de I’lles a year.
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In case just having an iPhone isn't good enough of a statement for you, soon you'll be able to have an iPhone plated in 24 carat gold. I'm not going to say it looks bad, because it doesn't (it is an iPhone, after all!), but I will say the concept is a little over the top and a bit ridiculous -- especially once people realize it is in fact real gold.
